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This audio series translates the Greek myth of Perseus for teens, making its hero a young man still figuring out his destiny.
Embodying the Thornton Wilder character "helped heal something inside me that I hadn't even realized had been broken," says one.
Presentations include the 30th anniversary of George C. Wolfe's "The Colored Museum"; Andréa Burns in "Bad Dates"; and a solo show by Riz Ahmed.
Our writer's adaptation of "The Illusionist" was slated for a tryout run. Lockdown, a tragic death, cancer and quarantine got in the way, but didn't stop the show.
Streaming highlights: the New York Chorale Society, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence and City Ballet's 'Prodigal Son.'
Recorded on a Houston stage, "The Book of Magdalene" is theatrically intimate, while "Hotel Good Luck" gets caught up in digital trickery.
Hermione Lee's biography of the playwright and screenwriter covers his rigorous research and writing habits, his famous friends and his political thinking.
Four not-very-believable characters in a chain of monologues are rescued by a cast of exceptionally believable actors.
Missing live performances during the pandemic? Get your theater fix with a handful of online stellar productions (new and old).
The acclaimed biographer's life of the widely admired playwright and screenwriter follows her works about Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton and others.
New York Times review of Patrick Page's new show.
Patrick Page writes and stars in a meditation on the Bard's villains, moving swiftly through a catalog of characters as if he were a chameleon.
He was a favorite of Luis Buñuel and other top filmmakers. He also had a fruitful collaboration with the stage director Peter Brook.
German playhouses are finding innovative ways to forge connections while their doors are closed.
The Emmy-nominated writer and performer will work with Matthew López to adapt the comedy for the stage.
"We Play Ourselves" finds a struggling playwright exiled to Los Angeles and obsessing over New York. Then she meets the manipulative filmmaker next door.
Hiring couples to act together allows us to see two people in one virtual space. For the couples themselves, though, it can feel like "there's no escape."
The man was taciturn, but his Theater District restaurants were like Broadway clubhouses. Even the posters of flops were placed with affection.
A Harriet Tubman monologue, an animated "Sit-In" and a toy theater short about medical inequity deliver useful messages through varied mediums.
Samuel Bailey's knockout professional debut isn't so much about the pipeline to incarceration than about the toxic masculinity that keeps it flowing.
"NY PopsUp" will kick off Feb. 20 and run through Labor Day.
The director, Kirill Serebrennikov, is known for productions with thinly veiled criticism of the Russian government. His contract at the Gogol Center was not renewed.
His restaurant Joe Allen and another he opened next door, Orso, have been popular hangouts for celebrities and celebrity-watchers and the flagships of an international empire.
